The history of oriental carpet-making is intertwined with the lives of people, Turkic people who have migrated through the centuries from Central Asia Westwards. This book begins with a look at early carpet fragments – those prior to the first Turkic migrations. Then the study follows the people west into Muslim lands and then into the non-Muslim world. We see the encounter with the Abbasids (Samarra), the art of the Anatolian Selcuk Period, the Emirate Period and Ottoman times up to the present. Paintings and miniatures abound with depictions of carpets produced during the centuries in this history.

One Thousand Years of Turkish Carpets

History

ASLANAPA, Oktay

Military

Eren

Kilims

Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi

James Robertson: Pioneer of photography in the Ottoman Empire

Öztuncay, Bahattin

The Turkish Hayat House

Kuban, Doğan

In this volume are collected papers published between 1960 and 1994, dealing with early Ottoman history and historiography, and Ottoman urban and legal history. 
"I believe we have to consider first whether the Ottomans themselves divided their history into periods, whether they were conscious of a distinction between the age in which they lived and earlier ages, and what ideas they had about periods in history." 
--Halil Inalcik\nFrom the Publisher\nCover Design: Vavassore's view of Constantinople, Engraved and published by G/Braun and F. Hogenberg, ca.1574\nFrom the Author\n"I believe we have to consider first whether the Ottomans themselves divided their history into periods, whether they were conscious of a distinction between the age in which they lived and earlier ages, and what ideas they had about periods in history." Halil Inalcik

Essays in Ottoman History

Halil İnalcık

Osmanlı'da devlet, hukuk, adâlet (Turkish Edition)

Inalcik, Halil

Middle East

The collection of articles in this volume critically deal with the premises and construction of the nation-state, its ideology and identity, and the status of citizenship within, thematically proceeding from historical evaluations to analysis of contemporary issues. Overall, the question of future of the nation-state and citizenship rights emerges as one of the most salient issues of global politics and democracy of our time. The prevalent theoretical tension between communitarian/organic and individual/liberal rights; the pressing reality of regional/global pressures; the ensuing plurality of identities, they all converge on the question of 'whither the nation-state?'. Over the last decades of the century fundamental changes have taken place in the global order. As is evident ethnopolitics has generally gained an unanticipated dynamism almost in all regions, emerging in the long established and relatively young nation-states of the world at the same time. The specific impact of post-cold war and post-communist development have further increased the significance of this process. Increasing trends of regional integration, global and multicultural intercourse, in parallel, have also onset such new sets of relations that the very political, economic and cultural foundations of the nation-state are being seriously challenged. Consequently, there has emerged both a theoretical and practical necessity to reconsider historical legacies and conceptual constructs surrounding the phenomenon of the nation-state at large. Today, Turkey stands at the cross-roads of many regions undergoing such transformation, herself being exposed to similar pressures.  It was the uncertainties of the 'new order' and the challenges it brought against the existing systems both in and outside of Turkey that gave us the initial impetus to contribute to the global discussions concerning ethnicity, nation and statehood, citizenship and identity.

Redefining the Nation State and Citizen

Tokay, Gul

Ozdogan, Gunay Goksu

This work examines the manner in which the Ottomans established control, in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, over a largely Orthodox Christian population in the Balkans and Aegean basin. It argues that their success in ruling the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional state thus created was due less to force of numbers than it was to their granting a wide variety of concessions and privileges to their subjects. This policy, known as istimalet, or good will and accommodation, stemmed, according to Lowry, from a combination of factors including a severe shortage of trained manpower to administer their ever-growing polity and an understanding, from a remarkably early period, that the fruits of conquest (booty and slaves) were no substitute for the steady flow of income (tax revenues) which could be obtained from a population whose support they enjoyed. 
This book provides the reader a fascinating behind the scenes glimpse into how the early Ottomans managed to create a world empire primarily among peoples whose languages, religions and cultures were all equally foreign to them.

Fifteenth Century Ottoman Realities

Lowry, Heath W.

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